{
  "abstract": "Introduction Losing focus while driving, including cellphone-based distractions (phone calls, text messages, other apps), is a prominent problem for adolescent drivers. Internal cellphone-based technologies designed to reduce distractions are prominent, but little is known about how parents and their children feel about their ability to successfully reduce distracted driving. This study interviews parents and adolescents to understand the utility and what is needed for implementation of these technologies.Methods Twenty (20) adolescent–parent dyads participated in semistructured qualitative interviews. Participants reflected adolescent drivers and their parents who previously had been documented as ranging from ‘very low’ risk drivers to ‘very high’ risk drivers.Results Three themes emerged from the interviews: (1) Cellphone-based technologies can be feasibly implemented as distracted driving interventions. (2) Cellphone-based technologies can be a learning tool for newly licensed adolescent drivers to form better habits. (3) Cellphone-based technologies by themselves are not sufficient for long-term behaviour change.Conclusions Cellphone-based technologies have their purpose, especially for younger drivers, to help form good habits and reduce distractions. By themselves, they are not going to be the reason for eliminating distracted driving in adolescents or have long-term behaviour change. They can be most successful when combined with other interventions aimed at reducing distracted driving.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Public Health, Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, USA",
        "McGovern Medical School, Pediatrics, UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, USA",
        "Texas Violence Injury Prevention Research Center, UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Kevin Rix"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Rachel Solomon"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Mallory Lacy"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA",
        "Penn Injury Science Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA",
        "Center for Health Care Innovation, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA"
      ],
      "name": "M. Kit Delgado"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Center for Health Care Innovation, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Jeffrey P Ebert"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA",
        "Injury Prevention Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA",
        "Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Douglas J Wiebe"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA",
        "Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA",
        "Penn Injury Science Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Catherine Claire McDonald"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Adolescent and parent dyad perceptions on the utility and implementation ability to use cellphone-based technology to reduce distracted driving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA",
  "uid": "a8af1d4e-ce32-56b8-afff-72002c2c4dfe"
}